Aha! A follow up to this article from the 25th.

From da Oz (a wicka wicka wicka woo):

No review on freed Nazi axe murderer

Greg Roberts

30jan06

PLEAS from police and Jewish community leaders to send neo-Nazi axe murderer Dane Sweetman back to jail for breaching his parole conditions by allegedly assaulting a hotel patron have been rejected by the Bracks Government.

Patrons at the Tote Hotel in the Melbourne suburb of Collingwood have alleged Sweetman headbutted and punched a man who questioned him about swastika tattoos on his neck earlier this month.
Police sources said the man did not wish to proceed with charges against Sweetman because he feared retribution.

Sweetman was released on parole last October after serving 15 years of a 20-year sentence for the 1990 murder of David Noble with an axe at a party to celebrate the birthday of Adolf Hitler.

At the time of the murder, Sweetman was on bail for another bashing offence. He had been released from jail five months earlier after serving four years for attempted murder.

The Australian revealed last week that as a result of the Tote Hotel incident, the Adult Parole Board amended Sweetman’s parole conditions to ban him from entering Collingwood hotels and from drinking alcohol generally.

Victorian Police Association secretary Paul Mullepp said yesterday it was clear that Sweetman was a danger to the community.

“A fat lot of good it will do to ban someone like this from a few pubs in Collingwood,” Senior Sergeant Mullepp said.

“There is a significant safety issue here. He has a dislike for police officers and he has a significant background as far as defying the law and assaulting members of the community is concerned.

“The parole board should have taken the police view into account, and that is that he should be back in custody serving his original sentence.”

B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission policy adviser Rodney Gouttman said the board should have acted on the police advice.

“The board should not have let him out in the first place and the police continue to believe he is a fundamental risk,” Dr Gouttman said.

“Banning him from drinking is nonsense. Do they intend to monitor him 24 hours a day?”

Sweetman kept a diary in jail in which he boasted of torching a synagogue and vandalising others. He also claimed responsibility for several assaults for which he has not faced charges.

Corrections Minister Tim Holding said he would not be making representations to the parole board.

“The board took into account the fact he was not charged with any further offences,” a spokesman for Mr Holding said. “It’s a matter for the board.”